Show NOT twenty two willow anti nil ninety orphans wilkes barre pa tune lune 30 it 11 1 a almott in ost a settled fact that ol of the small mall army of men who entered the ill fated twin shaft at pittston on Saturday night not one survives not only Is i every approach to their dark tomb bar headed I 1 b bj enormous mattes masses of rock and debris but it is known that in the mine there Is a large quantity ot of water which Is increasing in volume every minute thus the chances of recovering their bodies are more remote than ever prominent officials say that chat weeks or I 1 months monti tsmay may be consumed in clearing away the fallen alien coal in order to reach the bodies of the victims A mine as superintendent perin ot of thirty five years ex elpe pe hence thinks the unfortunate men have met the same fate that bebel the twenty six members who perished in in no 3 slope of the susquehanna coal company in december 1885 these men were caught in a rush of culm or water from the surface their bodies were burled under a mou tain of coil coat refuse three hundred men labored for more than two weeks to rescue them but the more debris they took out the more rushed in from the surface opening As I 1 the task was a hopeless one it was abandoned and the portion of the mine where the men died abandoned the supposition suppo filion that there is water in the twin shaft IS ie well founded both the lackawanna and susquehanna hanna rivers run in close proximity to the ahe shaft when the fall occurred the feet ot of rock mentioned must have been shattered allowing the water to pour into the mine in large quantities until the open space was war filled the natural consequence of this Is is that if the men did not lose their lives under the mass mask ot of rock they must have died by drowning if this be the case it will be impossible to remove the bodies from the mine niina mine inspector mcdonald has issued the following signed statement so tar far AS a my knowledge of working of the mine and the manner in which the work was conducted I 1 do not believe the accident was due to any an criminal carelessness but I 1 cannot say definitely that it was not until I 1 make a thorough investigation this cannot be done until we find the men or abandon the mine HUGH McDoN Aln I mine inspector Inspect oi some take the view that it would be better belter to let the bodies remain where they arc and devote the money that would have to be expended to open the passageway of the mine to the relief of isle widows and orphans of tile the victims relatives of the entombed men op pue this proposition they look with horror borror upon the idea of their loved love goeb 5 leeping their in an abandoned ining apart front from tire the possibility mill bill en cn by bv home bonic that the men may be alive |